Commercial Law

We give legal advice to national and international enterprises, medium- and small-sized businesses as well as to individuals with regard to all business-related matters.

For more than ten years we have been at our clients’ disposal at our office situated in Berlin. In international matters our clients benefit from our international organization with its offices in New York and Connecticut.
The main area of our consultancy services is within the area of corporate and commercial law. Our clients are mainly active in the field of plant engineering and construction, renewable energies and the provision of services.

We draft, check and negotiate contracts and General Terms and Conditions on behalf of our clients in German, English and Portuguese. We have extensive experience in foreign business practices and trade customs.

We can advise you on the incorporation and restructuring of your business as well as on the sale or acquisition of an interest in a company (mergers and acquisitions). We can also represent you in shareholders’ meetings, as well as in court.

As your “virtual legal department” we are part of your team.

As full-service providers, we give reliable advice concerning your ongoing business operations and shape the legal foundations and details of your business so that you can concentrate on actually running your business.
Furthermore, we provide our clients with legal training based on individual concepts. Our strength is our general comprehension of highly specialized business needs and we are able to mould our training accordingly.
As former in-house counsels we have a deep understanding of our clients’ legal department’s concerns and are good at cooperating with them.

As a full-service business advisor, we support our clients in building and nourishing business relations and are happy to open our business network to them.

Sports Law

Professional sport, economics, politics and law are directly linked. We operate professionally and competent on all of these (playing) fields and have the respective „pedigree“ which is crucial in the sports arena.

Sport Law itself is comprised of many particular regulations: the statutes and regulations of the national and international sports federations, singular sports laws and the intersecting set of all areas of law, that have a direct or indirect influence on the sport and the athletes. In particular, contractual arrangements such as athletes’ employment and transfer contracts or event and sponsoring contracts greatly influence sport itself.

We provide you with the legal framework for your engagement in the sports sector, advise you strategically and further your endeavours by drafting specific contracts within a legal master plan. Furthermore, we provide you with comprehensive legal management within which we monitor legal circumstances, contractual duties and rights that may influence your project.

Our extensive practical experience in the realization and legal monitoring of major sports events, sponsoring and the management of athletes puts us in the position to ideally advise you legally and strategically. We provide our consultancy services to sports clubs, federations and organizations, sponsors and event management businesses. Furthermore, we advice athletes in all legal matters.

We are happy to contribute to our clients’ success by using our personal national and international contacts within in the sports sector.

Real Estate Law

One of our main consultancy areas lies in the Berlin condominium- and real estate market.

Everything about real estate – solutions from a single source.

From drafting and reviewing real estate and condominium sales and transfer contracts to property development contracts, we are at your side at any time as a well-connected advisor. Frequently with these transactions, time is of the essence. Accordingly, we provide you with sound and practical solutions promptly, personally and outside the usual office hours.

For foreign investors we can handle the entire processing of your desired project including the local representation in contracts that require notarization.

With our main consultancy area in the field of tenancy and residential property law we are primarily the right contact people for Berlin property managements with respect to all legal matters relating to the lease and administration of the properties. Whether you are looking for the review of ancillary cost statements, rent increase demands or actions for eviction: we work on the basis of local precedents and thereby help you to react to any changes in the tenancy law quickly and anticipatory. We can of course also represent you in court.
We are the right law firm if you are constructing, altering or extending your real estate. We have extensive experience in the area of construction and architectural law and represent owners, architects and medium-sized building contractors.

Litigation

In the preliminary stages of a court proceeding our work is – depending on our clients’ objective – aimed at an out-of-court dispute resolution. Therefore we also provide claim management services to our clients.

Of course we will pursue and enforce your rights in court for you.

We fight for you.

We have more than a decade of practical experience in civil procedure and compulsory execution of German but also international judgements in Germany.

We can represent you nationwide in procedures inter partes and in the cases of voluntary jurisdiction. Whether interim reliefs, classical civil litigation, legal dunning proceedings or special cases such as summary procedures based on documentary evidence or independent procedures for gathering evidence: we have the necessary expertise in successfully enforcing your claims but also in fending off claims that are brought against you.

We represent you in all German local, regional and higher regional courts.

Imprint

MHR Lewis Manke Haase Reichelt Rechtsanwälte and MHR Lewis US LLP are separate legal entities that are members of MHR Lewis e.V., a German registered Verein. MHR Lewis e.V. does not itself provide legal services to clients but merely coordinates the activities of its members.

References to “MHR Lewis”, “the law firm”, “offices” and “the attorneys” are to one or more of the members. Such reference does not imply that the members are in partnership together, nor that one member accepts responsibility for the acts or omissions of another.

Each member provides legal services in particular jurisdictions and is subject to the laws and professional regulations of the particular country in which it operates. Each member preserves its clients’ confidentiality and legal professional privilege.

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MHR Lewis e.V. (a German Verein) is an association founded and registered in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is listed in the association register (Vereinsregister) of the Amtsgericht Charlottenburg under the association number VR 36328 B. MHR Lewis e.V. is represented by its President Dr. Muna Reichelt c/o Bismarckstr. 107, 10625 Berlin, Germany.

The professional title Rechtsanwalt or Rechtsanwältin has been granted in the Federal Republic of Germany. The Rechtsanwälte are admitted to practice law in the Federal Republic of Germany and are members of the Berlin Chamber of Attorneys (Rechtsanwaltskammer Berlin). The applicable professional regulations in the Federal Republic of Germany include the Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung, the Berufsordnung für Rechtsanwälte, the Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz, the Fachanwaltsordnung, das Gesetz über die Tätigkeit europäischer Rechtsanwälte in Deutschland und the Code of Conduct for Lawyers in the European Union. The German text of these regulations may be accessed via the website of the Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer (www.brak.de). The title Attorney-at-Law is a professional title granted to attorneys licensed in the United States. The attorney Dr. Muna Reichelt is admitted to practice law in the state of New York and is a member of the New York Bar. The relevant US-American organization is the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The relevant regulation for attorneys in New York is the Lawyer’s Code of Responsibility, that can be accessed via the website of the New York Bar Association.

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MHR Lewis (US) LLC, a United States limited liability company registered in Connecticut.

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the internet protocol address (IP address)

date and time of the access

the browser types and versions used

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This data will be processed for the following purposes:

correct delivery of the content of our website

comfortable usage of our website

analyzation of the security and stability of the information technology system

other administrative purposes

The legal basis for the processing of the data is Art. 6 Section 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Our legitimate interest derives from the aforementioned purposes of the data collection. We do not use the collected data to draw any conclusions about you.

Transfer of Data

There will be no transfer of personal data to third parties except for the following purposes:

We will only transfer your personal data if:

you have given you explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO,

the transfer is necessary for the purposes of the assertion/enforcement of legitimate interests pursued by us except where such interests are outweighed by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of you which require protection of personal data in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO

in case of a legal obligation by which processing of personal data is required in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 S. 1 lit. c DSGVO, and

it is legally permissible and necessary for the provision of any services or goods in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 S. 1 lit. b DSGVO.

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The data generated by the cookies are necessary for the purposes mentioned in order to assert/enforce our or third parties’ legitimate interests pursued in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

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Data Subject Rights

You have the following rights:

according to Art. 15 DSVGO you have the right to obtain from us free information about your personal data stored at any time and a copy of this information. You may especially obtain information about the purposes of the processing; the categories of personal data concerned; the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organizations; where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period; the existence of the right to request rectification or erasure of personal data, or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject, or to object to such processing; the existence of the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source; the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling and meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and envisaged consequences of such processing for you.

You have a right to obtain information as to whether personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organization. In such a case you have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer.

According to Art. 16 DSGVO you have the right to obtain without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning yourself and to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

According to Art. 17 DSGVO you have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data concerning yourself without undue delay, and we have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies, as long as the processing is not necessary: The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed, you withdraw your consent to which the processing is based and where there is no other legal ground for the processing, you object to the processing and there are no outweighing legitimate grounds for the processing; the personal data have been unlawfully processed, the personal data must be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the we are subject.

According to Art. 18 DSGVO you have the right to obtain from the controller restriction of processing if the accuracy of the personal data is contested by you; the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request instead the restriction of their use instead; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of the processing but they are required by you for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or if you have objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21 Section 1 of the DSGVO pending the verification whether our legitimate grounds outweigh yours.

According to Art. 20 DSGVO you have the right to receive the personal data provided by you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. Furthermore, you have the right to have personal data transmitted directly from us to another controller, where technically feasible and when doing so does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

According to Art. 7 Section 3 DSGVO you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time to the processing of personal data concerning yourself forbidding us to process any data in the future based on the initial consent; and

according to Art. 77 DSGVO you have the right to complain about us at the competent regulating authority. Generally, you may turn to the regulating authority of your usual residence or of our place of business.

Right to Object

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to you particular situation, at any time, to processing of personal data concerning yourself, which is based on lit. e or f of Art. 6 Section 1 of the DSGVO. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

We will no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process the personal data for that purpose.